Lily Auchincloss

Lily Auchincloss (née van Ameringen, April 5, 1922 – June 6, 1996) was an American journalist, philanthropist, and art collector.

Early life Lily Auchincloss was born in 1922 in Newark, New Jersey. Her father, Arnold Louis van Ameringen (1891–1966), who was born in the Netherlands, was the founder and later chairman of International Flavors and Fragrances and her mother was philanthropist Hedwig Adele van Ameringen (née Pfaltz) (1901–1996). She had two siblings, Henry van Ameringen and Patricia Kind (née van Ameringen). She attended Radcliffe College and graduated cum laude in 1944.

Personal life In 1956, she married Douglas Auchincloss, a writer at Newsweek and later the religion editor of Time magazine. The couple divorced in 1979. Together, they had: Alexandra Auchincloss, who married Paul Karel Herzan in 1987.

In 1980, she was inducted into the International Best Dressed List.

Auchincloss died on June 6, 1996, of cancer in Manhattan.